Sunday, 18 January 2009

Well, Cement Quay's 5th outing on the road, this time to the Astolat Model Railway Club's excellent yearly show on Saturday 17 Jan 2009 went very well in indeed. This was mainly due to a posse of railways modellers on RM Web who kindly offered their services to help play trains on the day. This meant that time could be given over to chatting to exhibition goers in addition to playing bouncer to deter the occasional person that decided that the layout would make a good prop to swing off!

Looking at the shot above, I wonder what drug the person who selected the curtain material was on? One to be avoided methinks!

Monday, 12 January 2009

I had some spare dyed plumber's hemp left over from Catcott, so before the cat decided to play with it, the remainder got stuck into place with PVA to replicate more rushes and reeds. Some spare embroidery thread was pinched from my wife's sewing box to create the missing mooring ropes. The mast on the barge looks a tad clumsy, time to dig out out the magician's invisible thread when I have time.

It's unlikely in this day and age than such a worn out and overgrown place would exist in real life - 'rule number one' of course!

Monday, 5 January 2009

Just when we though the game was over, Fotopic has risen from the grave! The 3 day outage supposedly was caused by their link to the outside work going down - tut, you should always allow for redundancy with something so important!

Thursday, 1 January 2009

Before I totally write this one off, a 3D sketch of Carter's Siding (yup, using pencil and paper!). This is not at all to scale or in proportion (the loading dock is too high - in model form I'd like it to be around 2"), but does help me in trying to visualise things. The bridge would have to have quite a hump too so as to clear the trains - hence the narrow gauge line darting off towards the backscene. It will probably never happen......